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Anchor
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 1400032180
EAN: 9781400032181
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Literature and Fiction
The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly
humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden
appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four
variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts–parents Eve and
Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter
Astrid–encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way,
but somehow her presence allows them to se their lives (and
their life together) in a new light. Smith’s exhilarating
facility with language, her narrative freedom, and her
chromatic wordplay propel the novel to its startling,
wonderfully enigmatic conclusion. Ali Smith’s acclaimed novel won the prestigious Whitbread
Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the
Orange Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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